I definitely think we should be able to do more with our signatures, like more than one image or link, or maybe even be able to have proper flash ads, although obviously they would have to be filtered somehow.
That would allow us to make animated pictures which can be clicked and other interactions in different places, or even interactive images and things.
Interesting.
I think it will be good if You will be able to delete own posts.Also some extra-options,like hiding Your posts count and "rank" (I'm excellent example,don't You think?).
Maybe writing posts visible only to some people,like other Premium or choosen.Very important when You want to post idea for mod-haters everywhere.
Are you commenting on my post? I already suggested post deleting if not
Maybe the Premium members of Course would get a extra tool or something? For MC: Texture Pack tool, skinning tool, some awesome Terrain edit tool and more?
Other features for other sites and themes, of course!
I'd like to have a 'Suggest Megathread' button, which emails an admin or something with an idea about a megathread. For example, if I wanted to have a Portal megathread, I'd press said button, and right, in detail, why i want that topic to have a megathread.
Also have priority support with admins/moderators of the MC forums.
That would be unfair to other users of the forums to have primary access to support. We shouldn't be dealing with one user's report over anothers.
Maybe include some connection to a Minecraft Realms server to enhance the subscription rate?
Maybe it will not solve anything but it can make it much prettier
Maybe the Premium members of Course would get a extra tool or something? For MC: Texture Pack tool, skinning tool, some awesome Terrain edit tool and more?
Other features for other sites and themes, of course!
To be honest, the only benefit I ever received as a Premium member was for World of Warcraft, where it is a fantastic idea to be able to update all of my WoW mods at once at the click of a button.
That being said, even with money being tight, if Curse could somehow get the ability to actually manage our Minecraft mod downloads, it would be so worth the cost. I'm not even talking about the installation of mods -- that can always be tricky...I just mean just the management of the various versions of mods with a "quick view" that shows the mod name, latest version, Minecraft Version it supports, whether it's a dev release, the last date it was updated, other mod dependencies, categories, etc.....Managing mods has become almost a game in itself as there is so much involved with it and there are several mods where you end up having to search through the entire thread to see updates.
Maybe an option for someone to delete their own topics.
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I joined in 1.2.5, summer 2012. First thing I ever built was a bunker in a hill next to a swamp, that had a diamond block entrance with a piston door, with bedrock and minecart tracks further in. I wish I'd kept the map around.
But in all seriousness, I think premium is as good as it gets in it's current state. I cannot really think of any good features you cannot get anywhere else. Perhaps diverse the giveaway prizes.
Color for name for Curse Premium (Instead of the regular Aqua/Teal color they should be able to choose from a variety of colors) (Cannot get staff colors)
Suggestion! You should be allowed to add your own personal item below your name (like now it says location, minecraft, and xbox) So like there will be a spot that you can make your own such as forum specialties ( i would put mcpe custom inventories) so people know what you do on the forums. There can be others that you can put there too like a friends tab that shows who out of your friends who you pm the most.
P.s if left blank these things will not show up and there should be a checkbox next to most pm'd friends so you can turn off the option.
I have noticed a lot of people needing to put things in the Minecraft or Xbox ones, just like sc1020 put for Xbox :"There's no mod for an Xbox in MC..."
The tag line for the ad on the first page had me quite confused for a second; I was wondering how on Earth I was supposed to offer constructive criticism on a service I've never used. I follow now though.
I think the problem you're rubbing up against with Curse Premium is that it's really hard for the wallet to justify a subscription service to a single web site, because, by design, they offer a very non-permanant and largely passive benefit for their flat fee. At the end of a month, the user looks back and realizes that, unless they were particularly high-traffic, they didn't really get anything and they've wasted that money, because the benefit is gone now as if it had never been purchased.
For this reason, I'd point you guys to deviantArt. They have a similarly specific web subscription service, and to this day it's the only one I've ever paid for. You're on the right track with the elimination of ad browsing, but frankly that's a bare minimum because, frowned upon as it is, most of your community probably blocks those themselves. In addition to that, dA offers some extra enticing features, like a dedicated Critique channel that puts you in a sort of queue for advanced or at least more prominent feedback from other users. There's also the ability to use custom CSS to tweak your profile within certain parameters, and a bit of web space put aside for your own Portfolio use. Off of the top of my head, I can also remember the accompanying beta tester status, store discounts, username changing, and increase on site wide caps such as number of simultaneous group memberships.
I'm not saying you should adopt these things specifically, as many of them aren't applicable outside of an art website, but to be succesful I feel like Curse would definitely need something comparable and relevant to gamers. Even dA struggles with this occasionally; new features are added for either premium or free users, the balance is shifted, and everyone re-evaluates whether the service is worth the money or not. It's sort of an up-hill battle, and dA actually provides a service that I could conceivably use to better myself professionally. That's a long-term benefit. Curse doesn't have any of those.
So, bringing this back to Curse? Ads are the minimum. I know it hurts your feelings but ad blockers are things now, and regardless of your stance on their ethicality they aren't going anywhere. A blue username is similarly whoop-de-do. I appreciate that they don't melt my eyes when browsing the forum, but they aren't particularly noticeable and again it falls into the camp of "thing I had for a while, but then it vanished because I stopped paying for it and there's no gaurantee anyone even noticed". Private subforums are I suppose a step in the right direction as far as providing a service for the money goes, but in my experience splitting off free and premium users that way just creates another sub-forum with less traffic than usual (in all honesty, dA has this problem too). And giveaway entries aren't particularly enticing on their own, either, because I'm certainly not about to pay cash money for the chance of getting something for free, which is, by definition, no longer free at that point (not to mention I'm not the sort to jump at giveaways anyway).
From this I would conclude that, in its current state, Curse Premium (insofar as minecraft forums go) is a waste of money. If you enjoy it, great, I'm happy for you, but I personally wouldn't drop the cash on it. Whatever you guys do needs to offer some kind of long-term reward, so that your users aren't constantly reminded that they're paying $2.45 to temporarily change the color of some text that doesn't exist in a physical space. My recccomendation would be to look to premium services offered by sites like deviantART, that have been making money off of them for a while, and figure out what gamers, specfically of Minecraft, would want to pay for instead of artists.
As a side note, please don't consider me for this thread's Premium giveaway. If this ends up being the winning entry, lovely; give it to someone else. I'm not interested in the service and I wouldn't notice if I had it. I just dropped in to do my good cyber deed for the day and also because this rice is taking forever to cook.
You should add posting benefits of some sort... Kinda like certain BBCode only for premium members. I hate ads and that's why I'm trying to find a way to get Premium like my parents card, or a MasterCard Gift Card. I think the idea of premium is awesome, and I mostly like the sound of the PRIVATE forum for Premium members.I also like the previous ideas too, such as; Bigger Signatures, Custom titles, custom text under name [like: Minecraft, Location, Xbox (Add Custom Text)]
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I just want to remind you guys - Curse not affilated with Mojang. An exclusive client would have to be supplied by them, and a 'premium texture pack' doesn't seem like something to draw people in, due to diverse tastes.
Suggestion! You should be allowed to add your own personal item below your name (like now it says location, minecraft, and xbox) So like there will be a spot that you can make your own such as forum specialties ( i would put mcpe custom inventories) so people know what you do on the forums. There can be others that you can put there too like a friends tab that shows who out of your friends who you pm the most.
P.s if left blank these things will not show up and there should be a checkbox next to most pm'd friends so you can turn off the option.
I have noticed a lot of people needing to put things in the Minecraft or Xbox ones, just like sc1020 put for Xbox :"There's no mod for an Xbox in MC..."
You could have the idea of having one specific color for a premium member, or you could be able to have multiple signatures, or even a signature that shows you are a premium member, such as under your name. (Maybe even just text that says you are premium).
Personally, if I had the money to spend on it I would buy the premium. I hear the benefits you get are well worth $3 a month.
If I was going to add anything, I would add the ability to hide your own posts maybe not delete them just so we have people that can maintain their own posts. This would cut back on the work of the Staff and people who realize they posted something or broke a rule can have the chance to fix it without worry.
Other then that I think the benefits are worth the monthly fee, only I can't afford $3 a month right now as I don't have a stead job.
If there was anything else I was going to add to the premium accounts. It would be more public events, events that everyone can see (not just premium members) but that only premium members can be active in.
These types of events could be anything from a give away to early releasing of games. Think if you were a curse premium user and you got early access of maybe a week ahead everyone else. That would be worth it to a lot of people to pay the $3 a month to get just that. It would also make people excited to be active with the event. There should be a limit of course, or something like, you need to be a curse premium member for 30 days before you are allowed to gain early access. This would mean any game or project that is open for early access anyone who wants access early can't just sign up a few days before it opens get access and then cancel the next month.
I mean as Mojang hosts the Realms, couldn't Mojang host one only for Curse Premium?
But well Realms as a server concept is really weird... :$
That would allow us to make animated pictures which can be clicked and other interactions in different places, or even interactive images and things.
That's not what I was trying to say, but anyway this idea has lost its initial charm...
Other features for other sites and themes, of course!
That would be unfair to other users of the forums to have primary access to support. We shouldn't be dealing with one user's report over anothers.
The second is already possible, if you dig around.
Curse is not affiliated with Mojang
Those are mods created by other users.
That being said, even with money being tight, if Curse could somehow get the ability to actually manage our Minecraft mod downloads, it would be so worth the cost. I'm not even talking about the installation of mods -- that can always be tricky...I just mean just the management of the various versions of mods with a "quick view" that shows the mod name, latest version, Minecraft Version it supports, whether it's a dev release, the last date it was updated, other mod dependencies, categories, etc.....Managing mods has become almost a game in itself as there is so much involved with it and there are several mods where you end up having to search through the entire thread to see updates.
I joined in 1.2.5, summer 2012. First thing I ever built was a bunker in a hill next to a swamp, that had a diamond block entrance with a piston door, with bedrock and minecart tracks further in. I wish I'd kept the map around.
But in all seriousness, I think premium is as good as it gets in it's current state. I cannot really think of any good features you cannot get anywhere else. Perhaps diverse the giveaway prizes.
P.s if left blank these things will not show up and there should be a checkbox next to most pm'd friends so you can turn off the option.
I have noticed a lot of people needing to put things in the Minecraft or Xbox ones, just like sc1020 put for Xbox :"There's no mod for an Xbox in MC..."
I think the problem you're rubbing up against with Curse Premium is that it's really hard for the wallet to justify a subscription service to a single web site, because, by design, they offer a very non-permanant and largely passive benefit for their flat fee. At the end of a month, the user looks back and realizes that, unless they were particularly high-traffic, they didn't really get anything and they've wasted that money, because the benefit is gone now as if it had never been purchased.
For this reason, I'd point you guys to deviantArt. They have a similarly specific web subscription service, and to this day it's the only one I've ever paid for. You're on the right track with the elimination of ad browsing, but frankly that's a bare minimum because, frowned upon as it is, most of your community probably blocks those themselves. In addition to that, dA offers some extra enticing features, like a dedicated Critique channel that puts you in a sort of queue for advanced or at least more prominent feedback from other users. There's also the ability to use custom CSS to tweak your profile within certain parameters, and a bit of web space put aside for your own Portfolio use. Off of the top of my head, I can also remember the accompanying beta tester status, store discounts, username changing, and increase on site wide caps such as number of simultaneous group memberships.
I'm not saying you should adopt these things specifically, as many of them aren't applicable outside of an art website, but to be succesful I feel like Curse would definitely need something comparable and relevant to gamers. Even dA struggles with this occasionally; new features are added for either premium or free users, the balance is shifted, and everyone re-evaluates whether the service is worth the money or not. It's sort of an up-hill battle, and dA actually provides a service that I could conceivably use to better myself professionally. That's a long-term benefit. Curse doesn't have any of those.
So, bringing this back to Curse? Ads are the minimum. I know it hurts your feelings but ad blockers are things now, and regardless of your stance on their ethicality they aren't going anywhere. A blue username is similarly whoop-de-do. I appreciate that they don't melt my eyes when browsing the forum, but they aren't particularly noticeable and again it falls into the camp of "thing I had for a while, but then it vanished because I stopped paying for it and there's no gaurantee anyone even noticed". Private subforums are I suppose a step in the right direction as far as providing a service for the money goes, but in my experience splitting off free and premium users that way just creates another sub-forum with less traffic than usual (in all honesty, dA has this problem too). And giveaway entries aren't particularly enticing on their own, either, because I'm certainly not about to pay cash money for the chance of getting something for free, which is, by definition, no longer free at that point (not to mention I'm not the sort to jump at giveaways anyway).
From this I would conclude that, in its current state, Curse Premium (insofar as minecraft forums go) is a waste of money. If you enjoy it, great, I'm happy for you, but I personally wouldn't drop the cash on it. Whatever you guys do needs to offer some kind of long-term reward, so that your users aren't constantly reminded that they're paying $2.45 to temporarily change the color of some text that doesn't exist in a physical space. My recccomendation would be to look to premium services offered by sites like deviantART, that have been making money off of them for a while, and figure out what gamers, specfically of Minecraft, would want to pay for instead of artists.
As a side note, please don't consider me for this thread's Premium giveaway. If this ends up being the winning entry, lovely; give it to someone else. I'm not interested in the service and I wouldn't notice if I had it. I just dropped in to do my good cyber deed for the day and also because this rice is taking forever to cook.
Cheers~
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I just want to remind you guys - Curse not affilated with Mojang. An exclusive client would have to be supplied by them, and a 'premium texture pack' doesn't seem like something to draw people in, due to diverse tastes.
Those other suggestions are great though!
But, still, me no have Xbox :/
If I was going to add anything, I would add the ability to hide your own posts maybe not delete them just so we have people that can maintain their own posts. This would cut back on the work of the Staff and people who realize they posted something or broke a rule can have the chance to fix it without worry.
Other then that I think the benefits are worth the monthly fee, only I can't afford $3 a month right now as I don't have a stead job.
If there was anything else I was going to add to the premium accounts. It would be more public events, events that everyone can see (not just premium members) but that only premium members can be active in.
These types of events could be anything from a give away to early releasing of games. Think if you were a curse premium user and you got early access of maybe a week ahead everyone else. That would be worth it to a lot of people to pay the $3 a month to get just that. It would also make people excited to be active with the event. There should be a limit of course, or something like, you need to be a curse premium member for 30 days before you are allowed to gain early access. This would mean any game or project that is open for early access anyone who wants access early can't just sign up a few days before it opens get access and then cancel the next month.
Just my thoughts and ideas,
-Death